Adsense
I’m doing a little experimenting with AdSense. So far most of my pages come up with ads for “Start your blog now” or “Sexy Girls & Sexy Guys”. It’s interesting to see which posts trigger a keyword match. I have observed a few posts that have switched from generic blog ads to a topical ad after a followup visit from the Mediapartners-Google crawler. You’d think that a post on the Blackdog Linux Server, the Yahoo-Alibaba deal, or visiting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre would trip a keyword or two.
The banners are only on the single post templates at the moment, so you’ll need to click on a post to see them. There’s also a set of vertical text ads at the bottom of the sidebar. I can tell I’m probably going to end up starting on a round of site revisions by the time I’m done with this, although I’m just interested in getting a better handle on the advertising and affiliate space at the moment.
Update: 08-15-2005 23:58 - At least this post has gotten tagged with Adsense ads. It will be interesting to see which pages actually trigger clickthroughs, vs which pages get reasonable keyword tags from Adsense.
Tags: google, adsense, blogging
